Traditional instruction in the social studies has been content rather than process oriented, concentrating on the lower level thinking skills. Reading the Fifty States offers librarians and teachers the tools needed to encourage kids to use higher order thinking skills by discovering the culture and history of the fifty United States. That discovery takes place as kids read novels set in each of the states and participate in targeted reader-response activities that are process oriented, develop higher cognitive skills, and spark creativity. Helpful tools include 200 booktalks (4 for each state), lists of other recommended titles for each state, a fact sheet, a listing of the national standards covered, and a plethora of reproducible, reader-response activities directly linked to national standards in language arts and social studies. Grades 3-6
This would also be a good reference source for homeschoolers.

Cody the Allergic Cow helps children learn about milk allergies and how to recognize an allergic reaction. Cody explains milk allergies in a way that parents, teachers, and children themselves can talk about allergies and understand them better.

Before Dexter! Before Jimmy! There was Dr. Radium, the last scientist left standing in the "perfect" world of tomorrow! Ignored by society and feared by his assistant, Dr. Radium pursues Science with happy disregard for knowledge, progress, or safety. Stuck with Penny, a girl from the present presently trapped in the future, Dr. Radium suffers distractions from giant scientist rats, screaming dinosaurs, and Phill, one very mad King of the Pill Bugs. Dr. Radium and the Planet of the Dinosaurs collects all five issues of Scott Saavedra's critically-approved Dr. Radium: Man of Science comic book series along with a spiffy unpublished adventure.

Juvenile Collection

Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up. Every aspect of the creation of a pop-up, known as paper engineering, is clearly and thoroughly covered. All types of parallel folds, angle folds, wheels, and pull tabs are accurately detailed verbally and visually, flat and in dimension. Also included is a history of pop-ups and a step-by-step photographic essay on how a pop-up is made from start to finish. This guided tour is perfect for aspiring pop-up creators, paper engineers, students, and appreciators of this unique art form.

There's always a lot of action in the Mexican American neighborhood where Mr. Lozano lives. Amelia argues with Anita; Benito loves bean burritos but not bumblebees; Hortencia and Herminia hover around like hummingbirds; and Zacarias is catching some Zs on Zachary Street. José Lozano's wacky little stories and illustrations combine Mexican culture with Sesame Street smarts to make for a wonderful read-aloud ABC book in Spanish and English.

Graphic Novels

This collection of the first six issues of "MySpace Presents Dark Horse" includes Whedon's complete rock 'n' roll saga "Sugarshock," The Christmas Spirit by Mignola, lushly illustrated by Guy Davis, Way's lost "Umbrella Academy" chapter, and a four-part story dedicated to Eric Powell's "The Goon."

Normans never feel fear, but they do believe that terror literally gives one wings, enabling a person to fly. Now they're planning to test their theory on Vitalstatistix's cowardly nephew Jusforkix by pushing him right off the edge of a cliff.

Need something to make you chuckle? Flip through this unique collection of the world's most unusual books and authors, completely revised and updated from the best selling original. These bizarre books fall into chapters such as "We have a book on it" (ex. The toothbrush: its use and abuse),"Dirty books" (ex. 'The gas we pass: the story of farts'), "In sickness and in health" (ex. 'Memoranda on noses' or 'How to become a Schizophrenic'), and "Deviant diversions" which is split into leisure, sports, cooking and travel (examples: 'Teach yourself alcoholism' & 'Catching a cannon ball' & 'The thermodynamics of pizza' & 'In dwarf land and cannibal country').

The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. The thirty-three contributors to the volume explore the evolution of the publishing industry and the business of book selling. The histories of government publishing, law and policy, the periodical press, literary criticism, and reading--in settings such as schools, libraries, book clubs, self-help programs, and collectors' societies--receive imaginative scrutiny as well.The Enduring Book demonstrates that the corporate consolidations of the last half-century have left space for the independent publisher, that multiplicity continues to define American print culture, and that even in the digital age, the book endures.

Juvenile Collection

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the wondrous world of Abarat continue as the henchmen of the evil Christopher Carrion are in close pursuit. With the aid of his fiendish grandmother, Mater Motley, Carrion's plot is unfolding. Includes more than 125 full-color paintings by the author.

The author captures a little girl's simple, childlike celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years and observes how she has changed since she was a baby.

Graphic Novels

In 2001, audiences first met and fell in love with a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind named Artemis Fowl. Since then, the series has sold over seven million copies in the United States alone. Now, this phenomenally successful series is being translated into a graphic novel format. Eoin Colfer has teamed up with established comic writer Andrew Donkin to adapt the text. For the first time, rabid fans will be able to see what Foaly's tin hat looks like; discover just how Beet Root got his name; and of course, follow their favorite criminal mastermind as he plots and connives in action-packed, full-color panels.